Ugly In The Morning posted:

If you saw “from the developers of Far Cry” and didn’t expect this on some level, you definitely never played Far Cry. It felt like they were desperate to make the exact same mistakes twice.

The 7th Guest posted:

elder scrolls definitely falls into this category as it has been ported to so many things that people thought the "Skyrim on Alexa" was a skit and it was in fact a real thing

The 7th Guest posted:

i think about stuff like minecraft, fortnite, etc, where normies will buy any device that has it, because they have to have it in every room, and on their phone. elder scrolls definitely falls into this category as it has been ported to so many things that people thought the "Skyrim on Alexa" was a skit and it was in fact a real thing

games like wolfenstein though aren't really normie mainstream, it's stuff that hardcore gamers care about, and hardcore gamers will only buy a console if it has The Best Exclusives. that's the whole thing with xbox is that gamers(tm) just say "why would I buy that, it has no games". but normies will buy an xbox one s because it has minecraft installed on it

so anything from bethesda that is normie mainstream like TES should end up releasing on all platforms, and then stuff like starfield that only people that post on message boards even know what it's called (and even then we know little about it), that will probably be xbox/PC-only like Grounded and Avowed are

SirSamVimes posted:

How's the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos? Is the fantasy XCOM stuff fun, and is the story at least entertaining (I'm not expecting a good story, but is it at least fun to follow)

Stux posted:

this is backwards, you put the big titles people not into tech want to get them to buy your device, because otherwise they by the one with momentum/the thing they had last, which if you have no games is not your platform. this is the exact issue xbox had this generation. if tes and fallout arent xbox only for consoles microsoft should fire their entire marketing team.

Alamoduh posted:

I posted this in the fresh release thread when somebody asked about it there:

It is pretty bad, as of now. Every half hour or so, I get a freeze that makes me have to kill the process, and this has been widely reported by others on steam. The humor is great, if you’re a misogynist or 13-15 years old, otherwise it’s easily the most unfunny game I’ve ever played. Eg: there is an NPC named Binsc, with a giant miniature space hamster named Moo. An NPC says “I used to be an adventurer like you till I took an arow to the knee.” The bimbo elf says “why does everyone want to put their hands in my pockets.” The party leader says “all these girls are naked under their clothes! Oh no, must focus.”

However, the gameplay is pretty good, except there is a weird lag when you try to move, the keypresses are not always responsive, some of the stats and equipment don’t work or give the proper bonuses, and it’s very punishing- like a version of XCOM where you will miss or be dodged if your to-hit is lower than 75%, be dodged if lower than 85%, and every other attack is a critical fail where you heal the enemy and damage yourself. Also lots of typos and things not translated from French. (French dev team).

I’m a sucker for games like this, but play something else until it gets patched a few times. Fort triumph and the dark crystal tactics game are both better than this at the moment, and both of those are simply mediocre.

Alamoduh posted:

I posted this in the fresh release thread when somebody asked about it there:

It is pretty bad, as of now. Every half hour or so, I get a freeze that makes me have to kill the process, and this has been widely reported by others on steam. The humor is great, if you’re a misogynist or 13-15 years old, otherwise it’s easily the most unfunny game I’ve ever played. Eg: there is an NPC named Binsc, with a giant miniature space hamster named Moo. An NPC says “I used to be an adventurer like you till I took an arow to the knee.” The bimbo elf says “why does everyone want to put their hands in my pockets.” The party leader says “all these girls are naked under their clothes! Oh no, must focus.”

However, the gameplay is pretty good, except there is a weird lag when you try to move, the keypresses are not always responsive, some of the stats and equipment don’t work or give the proper bonuses, and it’s very punishing- like a version of XCOM where you will miss or be dodged if your to-hit is lower than 75%, be dodged if lower than 85%, and every other attack is a critical fail where you heal the enemy and damage yourself. Also lots of typos and things not translated from French. (French dev team).

I’m a sucker for games like this, but play something else until it gets patched a few times. Fort triumph and the dark crystal tactics game are both better than this at the moment, and both of those are simply mediocre.

K8.0 posted:

It's fun if you play it right, miserable if you just turn on armor and try to facetank the entire game. Also Warhead has much better gameplay than the original in some senses. If Crysis is a tactical stealth action game, Warhead is a "gently caress you bitch, I'm a god of destruction" game.

SirSamVimes posted:

I had a bad feeling that it was going to be that kind of humour from the trailer.

Still kind of tempted though if the actual combat/gameplay is good though...

Stux posted:

this is backwards, you put the big titles people not into tech want to get them to buy your device, because otherwise they by the one with momentum/the thing they had last, which if you have no games is not your platform. this is the exact issue xbox had this generation. if tes and fallout arent xbox only for consoles microsoft should fire their entire marketing team.

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

if I was putting out an incredibly popular game while trying to sell consoles I would make the game exclusive to my console

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

if anybody wants to play gears of war 5 or sea of thieves with me later hit me up on psn. gametertag chizmack

Leal posted:

Why can't I play Halo on my nintendo switch?

Leal posted:

Why can't I play Halo on my nintendo switch?

Leal posted:

Why can't I play Halo on my nintendo switch?

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

I don't think Xbox is going to suddenly backpedal on their "no exclusives" marketing strategy they've been pushing for a while now

Hwurmp posted:

GhostDog posted:

aaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaargh my back

zedprime posted:

They're probably going to be Xbox console exclusive (note the console qualifier there pedants ) but they're the underdog trying weird things. Exclusives don't really feel like why the 360 or PS4 won their generation specifically. More those were just the easiest places to play games. That seems to be the goal for the Xbox this generation so I also won't be surprised if they use the studios to create games with the marquee features like PC cloud saves and streaming to PCs and Windows tablets with a timed exclusivity window where the same game is released without that stuff on a Playstation eventually.

Hwurmp posted:

It's good but it's still got that mile-wide-and-inch-deep problem that seems to plague every space game.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Glass Masquerade 2: man this is such a step down from the first game. the art isn't as fun, the theming is stupidly pretentious, and I'm... going to finish it all aren't I

Blattdorf posted:

It's less of a step down and more a step sideways. Picking up pieces and rotating those wheels is still unnecessarily cumbersome. The UI still feels like style over substance because of this. Besides, I don't even know what sort of theming they wanted to go with here. It's like they are trying to tell a story, but they aren't?

The first game reminded me of Microsoft's Pandora's Box (someone make a spiritual sequel already!), and I thought the second game would try to move into more elaborate puzzling. Somehow they've managed to not only fail to fix the first game's flaws, they've magnified them. They've even crushed the colour palette into something ranging from purple to blue with occasional splotches of other colours here and there.

In short: Have you ever seen a stained glass window that is so oddly put that you just can't tell what you're even looking at, no matter how hard you try? And when you look at the label underneath, hoping for some kind of explanation, you instead find a silly poem? This is Glass Masquerade 2.

Maybe I'm being too mean to this game. It's not bad. But it's also a bit disappointing.